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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and my friends, I've been waiting for you.
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Thank you for letting me come into your space. Today
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I am gonna talk to you about the Fruit
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of the Holy Spirit in Galatians 5.
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It's going to be so wonderful.
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That's the reason why I have this big bowl
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of delicious grapes here.
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These grapes are so
juicy and so delicious.
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They are just luscious.
Everyone enjoys a good grape.
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And in the same way, when you
begin to produce the fruit
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of the Holy Spirit in your life,
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what you produce will be so luscious
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that people will keep coming
back to eat from your tree.
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They'll come back for another
helping and another serving.
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You'll have more friends
than you know what to do with
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because they will enjoy what
you're producing in your life.
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We're talking about the fruit
of the Holy Spirit, which is
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so much better than
the works of the flesh.
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We keep it simple,
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Oh, I'm so glad you've joined me today.
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Reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program,
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and today we're going to return
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to our anchor verse in Galatians 5:16,
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where the apostle Paul says - This I say
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then, walk in the spirit
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and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
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I wanna make sure you really
understand this verse.
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When Paul says - this I say then - the Greek says lego de.
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The word Lego means I
say it's very strong all
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by itself, it is emphatic.
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Now hear me, I'm really going
to say something to you.
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But then Paul adds the word de
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and the word de is an intensifier.
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It describes something
that's absolute something
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that is indisputable.
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You could say it's emphatic
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or categorical, so you could
actually translate the verse -
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now hear me, I'm telling you indisputably,
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I'm telling you categorically,
I'm telling you absolutely
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and emphatically: what's he telling us?
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Walk in the spirit
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and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
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The word walk is the Greek word, peripateo.
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The word peri, describes a circle or a general vicinity.
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The word pateo means to walk.
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But when you compound the
two words together, it means
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to habitually walk around in one particular vicinity:
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which means walking in the spirit is not
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what we do from time to
time or from hit and miss,
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but we can do it regularly and habitually
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and in fact, this word peripateo,
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which here is translated walk - in newer translations,
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is correctly translated live.
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We can live in the spirit.
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Now I can just hear you saying - Ugh,
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I don't know if I can do that.
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Yes, you can. The Bible says you can.
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The apostle Paul calls us to it.
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If he calls us to it, it
means it is attainable.
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We can regularly, habitually walk in the spirit to the point
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that we live in this realm.
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And Paul says, you shall not fulfill the
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lust of the flesh.
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The Greek says you absolutely will not,
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which means walking in the
Spirit is the guaranteed way
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to make sure you do not fulfill the lusts
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of the flesh.
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The word flesh, the Greek word sarkos,
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which describes the flesh, it
describes the carnal nature
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or base fleshly instincts.
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And the RIV of Galatians 5:16 is as follows:
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Make the path of the spirit the place
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where you habitually live
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and walk - habitually. Become
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so comfortable on this
spiritual path that you learn
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to leisurely
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and peacefully stroll along in that realm,
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living your life in this
spirit realm is the best way
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to guarantee that you will
not allow the yearning
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of your flesh to creep out
and fulfill themselves.
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That is what God is calling us to.
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And then Paul tells us
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what the flesh produces in Galatians 5:19
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through 21, and it's just awful.
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Listen to this. Now the works
of the flesh are manifest,
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which are these: adultery, fornication,
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uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,
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witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
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strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders,
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drunkenness, revellings and such like
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or other things like these.
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That is what the flesh produces.
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But then when you come to Galatians 5:22
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and 23, we have an alternative.
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We see what the Holy Spirit
wants to produce in us:
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But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy,
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peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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meekness, temperance.
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But notice how Paul begins in verse 22.
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He says, the fruit of the spirit.
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The reason fruit is produced
is because of a seed.
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And we saw in the last program in 1 Peter 1:
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23, that when we were born again, we were born again
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by the incorruptible seed of the word of God.
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When we called Jesus the Lord of our life,
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the Holy Spirit came in and brought the seed of God into us.
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And in 1 John 3:9,
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that seed is identified by the Greek word sperma,
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which is the word for seed or sperm.
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It means when the Holy Spirit came into us,
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it was like the divine sperm
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of God was injected into our human spirits.
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And now in us is the DNA of God, the life of God,
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the character of God, the behavior of God, the power of God.
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It's all right here today, resident inside me
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and it's resident inside you.
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And just like an apple seed
always produces an apple
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and an orange seed always produces an orange
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because the seed of God has been placed inside you.
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You are to produce the
life of God in your life.
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You carry that inside
you if you're born again.
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But in Galatians 5:22,
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Paul lists the first fruit that God wants
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to produce in our life.
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He says, but the fruit of the spirit is love.
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Just say the word love.
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Well, when you study the
Greek language, you find
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that there are 4-words to describe
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love: the word eros, which is a sexual love.
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I'm gonna explain this
to you in just a moment.
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Secondly, there is the Greek word stergo,
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which describes a love for family.
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It's a very limited, restricted kind
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of love. The word phileo, which is a love
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that is based on mutual satisfaction.
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And fourthly, there is the word agape.
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That's the word which we find in Galatians 5:22.
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It's a love with no strings attached.
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It is the highest kind of love.
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But let's begin with the word, eros.
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The word eros is never found in the New Testament.
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It is the word for sexual love,
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and it is where we get
the word for something
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that is erotic.
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It shares a root with a Greek
word, which means to demand,
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to beg or to request.
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And it tells us that erotic
love is usually a carnal kind
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of love that's not thinking
about somebody else,
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it's thinking about itself.
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It's thinking about what it can get.
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It begs, it demands, it requests.
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It's a very low level kind of love.
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It may be sensually pleasurable just for a few moments,
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but eros love is primarily focused on itself.
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And even in the Greek world of the 1st century,
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this word was used
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to describe a very low level kind of love.
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But in the New Testament, regardless
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of whether the context is friendship or brotherhood
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or romance, all believers are to aspire to agape
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because agape is a giving kind of love.
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Agape always focuses on someone else.
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It isn't focused on what it can get.
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And even in our marital lives,
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we should have agape working
in our sexual relationship,
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we're thinking of what
we can give rather than
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what we can get.
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That's really what it means.
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But then we come to the word stergo.
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This word stergo is used in multiple places in the New
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Testament, but the word stergo primarily describes a love
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that exists between parents and children
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or between members of a family.
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One scholar has noted that this word stergo, the 2nd form
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of love, could describe the love of a nation for its leader
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or even - are you ready for this -
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the love of a dog for its master. It's the picture
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of devotion and loyalty,
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and it usually describes
the love that exists
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between members of a family.
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Then we come to the 3rd word, the Greek word, phileo.
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This is the love which most
people know in their life.
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It's a good kind of a love,
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but it's not the highest kind of love.
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The word phileo describes affection such as the affection
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that is felt between a boyfriend and a girlfriend
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or the love that is felt,
the affection that is felt
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between two friends.
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It carries the idea of two
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or more people who feel
compatible, well matched,
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well suited and complimentary to each other.
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But it is a love based on mutual satisfaction.
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this kind of love can be lost.
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Mm. But then we come to the word agape.
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And the word agape is what
I call high level love.
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There's no higher, no
finer, no better kind
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of love than the word agape.
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the word agape is chiefly used
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to describe the love of God.
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It is the most high level kind of love
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and the very word used in Galatians 5:22,
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when the Bible says the
fruit of the spirit is love.
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There's no higher, no finer, better kind
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of love than agape love.
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And in fact, this word agape is filled
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with such deep emotion
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and meaning that it is one
of the most difficult words
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to translate in the New Testament.
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And trying to explain
this word has baffled
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translators for centuries.
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But I'm going to give you
my attempt at explaining the
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meaning of the word, agape.
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So hear me carefully.
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Agape occurs when an individual sees,
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recognizes, understands
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or appreciates the value of an object
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or person causing the
viewer to behold that object
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or person in great esteem,
in great awe, admiration,
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wonder and sincere appreciation.
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It just draws something out of the heart.
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Such great respect is awakened
in the heart of the observer
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for the object or person he's
beholding, that he's compelled
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to love it.
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In fact, his love for that person
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or object is so strong
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It is an irresistible kind of love.
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All of that is in this word
agape, which is so difficult
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to translate from the Greek language.
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And we find the best example of the word agape,
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in John 3:16.
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And in this famous verse the Bible says - For God
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so loved the world - that's the word agape - for God
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so agaped the world.
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And notice what God did - that
he gave his only begotten son
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that whosoever believeth in him should not perish
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but have everlasting life.
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And when the Bible says God so loved,
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this profound love is agape: God
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so loved the world,
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which means - when God looked upon the human race,
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he stood in awe of mankind, even though man at
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that moment was lost in sin.
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When God looked at man, the agape love
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of God in his heart caused him to admire man:
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he wondered at man,
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he held man in the highest appreciation even though mankind
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was caught in captivity to Satan and sin.
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At that moment when God looked upon the world
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and saw his own image in
man, it drew such respect out
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of the heart of God that God saw the world as being precious
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and he loved man so deeply that his heart was stirred
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to reach out and
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to do something to demonstrate that love and to save man.
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And this is very important
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because agape love is not passive.
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Agape love always drives one to action.
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I say it like this - Agape is a love that loves
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so profoundly that it knows no limits
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or boundaries in how far, wide, high or deep it will go
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to show that love to a recipient. If necessary,
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agape love will even sacrifice itself for the sake of
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that object or person
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it so deeply cherishes. Agape is the highest form of love,
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a self-sacrificial type of love
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that moves the lover to action.
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In contrast, eros is a self-seeking kind of love.
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Stergo is limited only to your family. It's very restricted.
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It's very limited.
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Phileo is based on mutual satisfaction.
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It can be disappointed.
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You can walk away from phileo love;
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but agape, agape is a high level kind of love
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that has no strings attached.
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It isn't looking for what it can get,
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it's looking for what it can give. It's awe
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of the one loved is so deep that it is compelled to love
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that person or object regardless of whether
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or not they ever respond.
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It isn't looking for response,
it's just looking to love.
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That is amazing to me.
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If you're moving in a low level kind of love, when you love
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and it doesn't come back to
you, you may say, that's it.
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I'm done with this.
I'm not giving anymore.
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But agape love is in charge of itself.
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It is a love that loves with no strings attached.
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It is much higher than eros, which is a love
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that's based on selfishness.
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It's much higher than
stergo, which is restricted
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by limitations.
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It's much higher than phileo,
which can be disappointed
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because it's based on mutual satisfaction.
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Agape is high level love
that has no strings attached.
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A love simply loves purely.
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It is the God kind of love,
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and it is the very kind of
love that we are commanded
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to walk in in 1 John 3:16,
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which says - hereby perceive we the love of God.
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That's the word agape - because he laid down his life
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for us, we ought to lay down our lives
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for the brethren. It means we are to love
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and we are to appreciate other just as fully
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and freely as God has loved us.
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The Father loved us to the
point of self-sacrifice.
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Jesus agape love drove him
to lay down his life for us.
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And in the same way we
are to agape our brothers
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and sisters to such an extent
that we would be willing
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to lay our lives down for them.
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If we're operating in this kind of high level agape love,
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if they don't respond the way we wish they would,
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it won't hurt us and won't disappoint us
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because we're not looking for what we can get -
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we're looking for what we can give.
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And in 1 John 3:18,
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John added: My little children let us not love in word
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and neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
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This word love, is again the Greek word agape,
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which means agape demonstrates itself.
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It doesn't just talk. Talk is cheap.
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When agape is really in operation, there's a demonstration.
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It comes with deeds,
it comes with actions.
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That's the way that agape operates.
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It does something just as God so loved the world
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that he gave his only begotten son.
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And believe it or not, in 1 Corinthians 14:1,
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when Paul writes - Follow
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after love - that word love, is the word agape,
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which means - we have got to make this kind of love the aim
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and the goal in our life.
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The word follow in 1 Corinthians 14:1 means,
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to hotly pursue, which means you've got to really determine
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to walk in this kind of love.
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It is the highest kind of love.
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It is just the opposite of
the flesh, which says, I gave
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to you and you didn't give back to me.
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So I'm not giving anymore.
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But high level agape
love says, you know what?
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If you never respond to me,
I'm going to love you anyway.
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I'm not looking for what I can get.
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I'm looking for what I can give.
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This is the God kind of love. It is amazing.
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And it is the 1st fruit listed in Galatians 5:22.
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And Paul tells us in Galatians 5:16 -
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Walk in the spirit
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and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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You can opt to let the fruit
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of the Holy Spirit work in you.
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You say, well, oh, I just dunno if I can
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manifest that kind of love.
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Of course you can. The
Bible says, God is love.
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That's the word agape.
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God is agape and his seed is inside you.
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The love that I'm describing,
it's already inside you.
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It's right here. You
just have to release it.
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Just like an apple produces apples
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and oranges, produce oranges,
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that seed inside you
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of love will produce love if
you'll choose to release it.
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But you've gotta make the
decision to walk in the spirit
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and not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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And let this seed in you begin
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to produce the fruit of love.
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It's yours, if you'll release it.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I want to pray for you.
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A life dominated by
the flesh is a hard life.
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It is filled with excess, imbalance, extremity, laziness,
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self-abuse, hatred, strife, bitterness,
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irresponsibility and neglect.
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The way of the flesh is
the hardest route to take,
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but a life dominated by
the Holy Spirit is filled
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with benefits and blessings.
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I'm talking about love,
joy, peace, long suffering,
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gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness and temperance.
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Don't give way to the flesh
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or Supernatural Life Giving Fruit.
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Today we've been talking about the fruit of love.
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I know you cannot remember
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everything I shared with you today.
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So get the series and you
can order it by going online
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or by giving us a call, and
it comes with a study guide.
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And be sure to also order
my daily devotional,
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which is called Sparkling Gems from the Greek No.I
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and Sparkling Gems from the Greek
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No.II. You don't have to order both,
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you can just order one
at a time or order both.
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If you already have No.I, get No.II.
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It doesn't matter which one you begin with
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because it's a daily devotional,
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it will walk you into the New Testament
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and help you understand
it like never before.
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And please remember that if
you need prayer, we want you
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to ring our phone
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or send us an email so we can
begin to release our faith
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for God to do something marvelous and mighty in your life.
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And he will. And I wanna pray for you right now.
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Father, please help us to make the choice
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to walk in high level love.
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Help us to release the work of
the Holy Spirit in our life,
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not to look for what we can get,
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but for what we can give to others to manifest the same kind
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of love that you have for us.
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In Jesus' name, - Amen.
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Remember Ecclesiastes 8:4. "Where the word
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of a king is there's power", and I'll see you tomorrow.
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If you've never received Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me
right now, Lord, I repent
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of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Discover the many ways you can
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We invite you to partner with
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